Matthew Stott
Sunday 14th October 2007 11:58pm [Edited]
19,296 posts
Quote: Aaron @ October 14, 2007, 7:30 PM
Both feature well-known, A-list actors. Both feature their respective actors making really, really pathetic attempts to enlighten a small audience of their techniques. Both feature said audience eating it up with no objection or questioning. Different techniques leading to the setup of the exact same joke. How's that any different to the different circumstances Daffyd finds himself in, surrounded by evidence of other homosexuals, insisting he's the only gay in the village?
Because in a lot of those kind of sketches, it is more or less exactly, word for word, the same sketch; such as lou turning away and andy getting up out of his chair; its exactly the same. With the actiors studio, for instance, the material was different but in the same basic set up; thats why I personally think its different and valid. Every episode of Father Ted, for instance, has the same basic surrounding and set up, but whats contained within is its own episode, new material within a returning format; and Im sure you wouldnt accuse that of just being the same old repetative tosh each week just because the set up is the same. With little britain, or similar shows of late, the sketches are more or less carbon copies of last weeks, or last series. Theres nothing new, no development, no new gags or bits, you may as well be watching last weeks.
